Principal Product Designer

Lead, manage, and develop a small team (3–5+) of senior IC designers through the work, creating a culture of craft, ownership, candid feedback, and high performance.

Personally own and ship design work on the highest-leverage or most ambiguous problems.

Set design vision and craft direction for your area, ensuring quality and consistency across your team's work.

Partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to align design with business priorities.

Own hiring and team composition for your area, adapting as the business and the team scale.

Establish and evolve craft standards, critique practices, and design operating rhythms for the team.

Represent design in cross-functional forums, translating design work into business impact.

Balance individual craft contribution with management, modelling the standard you expect of the team.

10+ years of design experience, including prior experience managing and growing individual contributors (managing managers is a plus, but not a requirement).

A genuine player-coach — still hands-on and excellent at the craft, and energized by both doing the work and developing others.

Proven track record of shipping high-quality design within a consumer product or creator / marketplace platform.

Strong craft judgment and the ability to provide feedback that meaningfully elevates team work.

Demonstrable proof of using AI as part of how you explore, prototype, communicate, and create.

Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, develop, and retain strong individual-contributor designers, especially at the senior level.

Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders.

Proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into a clear design direction.

Comfort balancing personal craft work with team leadership, and good judgment on when to do versus delegate.

Excellent written and verbal communication.

An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, home office set-up - the choice is yours!

100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees.

Employer contribution towards your retirement.

Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time, and other categories.

Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success.